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Two sex assaults in past week on Surrey transit

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SURREY - Transit Police have arrested a White Rock man for a sexual assault that happened last Wednesday on a Coast Mountain bus, but are still looking for a suspect in a separate sexual assault that took place Friday at Gateway SkyTrain Station.

Sebastian Ramon Lopez, 37, of White Rock, has been charged with sexual assault but has been released with conditions. Transit Police spokeswoman Anne Drennan said Lopez is accused up "rubbing up" against a 21-year-old woman in a sexual manner while on a bus heading from White Rock to Surrey. He was arrested shortly after the bus arrived at the Surrey Central bus loop.

"Lopez is very well known to police with close to 150 previous police contacts, including nearly 50 contacts with Transit Police," Drennan noted.

Meanwhile, investigators are still looking for a man who sexually assaulted a 29-year-old Japanese foreign exchange student at the Gateway Station in Whalley on Friday morning.

Drennan said the victim was buying a ticket when the man forced himself on her, repeatedly hugging and kissing her. "She was finally able to push him away and head to the train platform where she boarded a train," she said. "The suspect left the station on foot, shortly afterwards."

The attacker is described as white, balding, clean-shaven, in his late 50s, about six feet tall and 170 pounds. He wore beige pants, a green shirt, brown jacket, brown shoes and was carrying a briefcase.

tzytaruk@thenownewspaper.com



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